2011 MLB Season

[Meacon Keaton]

"Some of baseball best players ever had their careers cut short in order to kill Germans. I'll be damned if we let one throw a pitch at our World Series!"

/budselig

[Meacon Keaton]

For real, though, I can't open that article, since I'm at work. Does it say why?

[Trey]

MLB claims he doesn't have a good broad-base appeal. For the record, the guy throwing out the first pitch in game one is a guy who won some Pepsi contest. So yeah, I smell bullshit.

[MalaCloudy Black]

For real, though, I can't open that article, since I'm at work. Does it say why?

There's also this, from the article:

At least some hesitation stems from the idea that MLB executives want to stand behind their basketball counterparts and have notified the Rangers that they can’t bestow first-pitch honors on an NBA player.

[Meacon Keaton]

Yeah, I'm sticking with "Because of ze' Germans!"

[naiwf]

Yeah, I'm sticking with "Because of ze' Germans!"

German Jesus is too big of a name for MLB. They wouldn't want an NBA guy to overshadow this World Series that 7 people outside of Texas and St. Louis will watch.

[Blitz]

Dirk will throw out the first pitch for game three. A huge twitter uproar must have done some convincing to Selig.

Source here.

[gunnar hendershow]

Then they can get Troy Aikman for Game 4 since you know Joe Buck is just itching to sit in the booth with his best bud.

[naiwf]

Then they can get Troy Aikman for Game 4 since you know Joe Buck is just itching to sit in the booth with his best bud.

Are you saying Joe Buck would like to play catcher for Aikman?

[Meacon Keaton]

Then they can get Troy Aikman for Game 4 since you know Joe Buck is just itching to sit in the booth with his best bud lover.

[TheHurk]

Then they can get Troy Aikman for Game 4 since you know Joe Buck is just itching to sit in the booth with his best bud.

Derek Jeter will be joining them? I must have missed that.

[gunnar hendershow]

Arthur Rhodes finally pitched in a World Series game. Even better, regardless of the outcome of this series he's going to have a championship ring.

[Ananas]

I think baseball is just going through a down spell. The sport has done it quite a few times, and it always comes back. It's not the hip thing right now, but it'll come back. Hopefully the next time it reaches it's popularity height, it won't be because of steroids.

Other than that, there isn't really much you can do. Like Beatnik said, it's not a one-off game, so the only people who are going to be hardcore invested in it are the fans of the team. I'll be surprised if I watch even a full game of the World Series this year. It's not that I've lost interest in the sport, it's that I just couldn't give a hoot about the Cards or Rangers.

Attendance on a whole was up across the league this year. In 2009 and 2010 the league reported record revenues. I'm not sure where this perception that baseball is on some sort of decline, and you're definitely not the first to suggest so, but it's simply not true.

[gunnar hendershow]

If you selected Allen Craig in your "Unlikely Postseason Player" office pool, congratulations you have had a total victory.

Same situation, same pitch, nearly the same hit, same outcome.

Well unless the Cards blow the save.

EDIT - Which they did

[Blitz]

What a great game. This series is definitely well matched and it's a shame people aren't watching because Philadelphia, New York or Boston isn't in it.

[Panni]

Yea I admit I haven't been glued to the television screen. But I've caught late innings of both games, and they both have been a lot of fun. Since I really don't have a preference either way I'm really hoping this just goes down to Game 7 and is full of great playoff moments.

[gunnar hendershow]

This Albert Pujols guy can hit a baseball.

[Meacon Keaton]

There's always one post-season call-up that makes some noise. I guess he's that guy this year.

[gunnar hendershow]

Derek Holland pitched a gem for the ages and instead all anyone knows is that the Indianapolis Colts really fucking suck.

[naiwf]

John Lackey needs TJ surgery and will miss all of next year. Fortunately, the Red Sox will probably get more value for their dollar in 2012 from Lackey than they received in 2011. I would make a joke about how this will cramp his in game beer drinking ability, but I'm a gentleman.